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A trope most prevalent in Western Animation, but it can occur elsewhere. An actor is often cast into a role for which they can provide a great voice, but not always do the casting agents manage to get someone that can sing as well. A second actor will be brought in to dub the songs, and this isn't always as noticeable as one might think.

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If the actor is supposed to be playing a musical instrument while singing, two doubles may well be used.

Most Japanese voice artists sing the Image Song for their characters regardless of their talent, although again this isn't always the case.

Less frequently, concessions will be made to work around a voice actor with a less than pleasant voice. Sometimes, this trope can be done for Rule of Funny by having a character's separately performed singing voice deliberately sound nothing like their speaking voice.

Yellow Belmont in Genesis Climber MOSPEADA had different voice actors for not only speaking and singing roles, but also gender roles. For Yellow's female Idol Singer persona, Mine Matsuki performed both speaking and singing voices, while Hirotaka Suzuoki was Yellow's normal male speaking voice.

A third seiyuu was brought in for the OVA sequel Love Live Alive, as Jin Haneoka performed as Yellow's male singing voice.

In the Robotech adaptation, Yellow, or "Lancer," was once again voiced by two different voice actors: Cam Clarke for speaking roles and Michael Bradley for singing. Unlike the original series, both actors were male, although Clarke did make a rather unconvincing attempt at an effeminate voice.

Averted in the Japanese version Bubblegum Crisis OVA. cheduling and personal conflicts of Priss' VA and Knight Sabers main vocalist, Kinuko Oomori, were the major part in the AIC and Artmic clashes that ended the OVA mid-series. It's played straight in the English dub, where Sinda Nichols did not do her own singing for the original OVA. Instead, Priss's songs were covered by various artists (usually Joyce Leigh Bowden).

Normally averted by Japanese seiyuu, but for Saiyuki's Hakkai it's played straight. One can only imagine how terrible his singing voice is, as his Image Song is spoken-word. He's left out of the group song entirely. Lampshaded by Minekura when she referred to the other three seiyuu as "-8" ("Minus Eight"), with Hakkai's name being written with the kanji for "eight."

Akira Ishida's singing voice doesn't seem to be as bad as he thinks it is (it's not good, but at least it's on key). Still, he refuses to sing if he has to do any image songs.

He did sing in the two collaborations between the Saiyuki and Weiß Kreuz casts, though. Apparently, that was too much Fanservice to pass up.

Another anime where this happens is for Koyuki's singing in BECK, in which his singing voice is provided by rock singer Kazuya Hirabayashi. It's painfully obvious, too. Funnily enough, the dub averts this, as Greg Ayres does his own singing.

In yet another anime exception, the theme song from Excel Saga is sung by Excel and Hyatt— but not their normal speaking voice actors. This being Excel Saga, it is lampshaded in one episode where Excel and Hyatt meet their singing voice actors, in full Excel and Hyatt cosplay, at a bowling alley:

Excel: Why Kobayashi? Why Mikako? [the voice actors' names]

Hyatt: I do so hate knockoffs.

They did the opening because they had already made an album under the name Excel Girls wearing the said cosplay.

Subverted in Hidamari Sketch where the characters (and voice actresses) visit a karaoke parlor and sing nothing like they have for the openings/imagesongs, but rather sing more like how their characters would.

Subverted in Haruhi-chan. Yuki talks as she usually does through the whole opening theme while everyone else sings, looking like the "work-around voice actor with less than pleasant voice" variation. Then came the end of episode 6, where she suddenly pulls out a karaoke mic and starts singing "Paradise Lost" to get Achakura to forget the argument they just had.

Meanwhile, Lucky Star left all the songs to the Japanese cast. The rapidfire switching off between Wendee Lee speaking and Aya Hirano singing was a bit distracting.

In the English version of episode 14 of Slayers Next, Lina (voiced by Lisa Ortiz) shouted "In Japanese!" before she and Amelia started to sing, using the original Japanese audio track. It did somewhat fit, since the song Lina and Amelia were supposed to be singing was Meme and Nene's "Lost Festival Dance". Meme and Nene were clearly Asian-themed characters.

We do get to hear Lisa and Veronica sing as a practice run though. While they don't sound good together (though it somewhat fit the situation, as it was supposed to be embarrassing), Crispin Freeman is on key when Zelgadis teaches them the embarrassing lyrics.

A similar Lampshade Hanging came in the dub of Gokudo-kun Mannyuki: before several characters sing for a concert their de facto manager tells them "and remember to sing in Japanese!"

Phoron's singing voice in the Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica series is clearly not his own, since it's quite a bit higher than his usual speaking voice. Hiroshi Kamiya, Phoron's voice actor, does do his own singing for Phoron's image songs, but the voice he uses to contract Corti isn't his.

For the three North American dub CDs released of Sailor Moon, most of the show's voice actresses don't sing their characters' image songs. Jennifer Cihi sings Serena's, songwriter Shandi Sinnamon does Amy's, Sandy Howell does Raye's vocals, and Patricia Tollett does Lita's. One of Howell's songs was also used in the actual show when Raye sings. Katie Griffin (her speaking voice) is also a professional singer and wanted to do her own singing, but the songs were all recorded out of Los Angeles, while the voice acting was done in Toronto.

The new Viz Media dub keeps all the songs in Japanese, except in cases where the characters are actually shown singing on-screen. This despite Viz mentioning that they had gone out of their way to cast actors that could sing; only Cristina Valenzuela (Rei) and Cherami Leigh (Minako) actually get the opportunity to do it.

In the Love Hina dub, during episode 11 and episode 18 when the characters sing, the show switches back to the Japanese vocal track. However, the song in the Spring Special is dubbed by the English VAs.

Ranma ½: Angela Costain did not do her own singing for Nabiki Tendo. Saffron Henderson sung for her instead. All the other voice actors did their own singing, notably Cathy Weseluck as Shampoo.

Annoyingly done in Full Moon o Sagashite where none of the English voice actors did any singing, and all of it was left in Japanese. It was pretty jarring, since the English voices sounded nothing like the Japanese. It doesn't help that the anime is all about singing.

While normally Averted in Tenchi Muyo!, where most of the voice actors do most/all of their own singing, some of them occassionaly have different singing voice actors.

One exception is Petrea Burchard, who only sung as Ryoko in a karaoke scene where it didn't matter how good she was. Burchard admits that she can't sing, so when she was asked to sing "Up Walk in Galaxy" (the ending to Tenchi Universe), she tried to say no, but the producers insisted that she try, believing that she actually could sing some since she was a capable vocal actress. Burchard hesitantly agreed to give it a shot, and she was given the song and told to practice. She did, but when it came time to recording, she nervously made the entire production staff sit as far back in the room as they could. They started recording, and the staff let Burchard get about half-way through the song before they finally believed that she couldn't sing. Diane Michelle ended up singing the final song.

Michelle also sang Your Hiroshi in the Magical Girl Pretty Sammy OVAs as Chihiro Kawaii instead of either of her speaking voice actors Ellen Gerstell or Rebecca Forstadt (both are also singers).

Aikatsu! uses an idol unit specially made for the show to provide the girls' singing voices, even though there are some singers (such as Minako Kotobuki, Kaori Ishihara, Manami Numakura and Tomoya Kurosawa, who performs the opening to DokiDoki! Precure) among them. Justified that songs in the first season are lifted straight from the arcade game of the same name which appeared earlier. Also, Naoto is voiced by Toshiyuki Toyonaga, but the singing is done by Kenta Harada, the vocalist of Rey.

Due to Yoshimasa Hosoya's health concerns in regards to his voice, in 2017 he pulled out of the Ensemble Stars! idol series, and in 2018 it was announced that he would no longer be singing for Tsukiuta, either. However, in an effort to maintain continuity, instead of replacing him outright, for Tsukiuta, he will continue to do the speaking voice for his character Arata, while the singer koyomi from the band Re:ply will provide the character's singing voice.

Films — Animation

The Disney Animated Canon zig-zagged with this trope. It's averted in most of the pre-90's films, as many of them were sung by their corresponding actors, as well as The New '10s Disney films, where all of the singing is done by the actors. However, the Disney Renaissance era did this frequently.

Everyone in Mulan. The heroine's VA was Ming-Na Wen, but her singing voice was provided by Lea Salonga. Shang's speaking voice was B.D. Wong, and his singing voice was Donny Osmondnote BD Wong is also a singer, but the reason for the dubbing is apparently because Donny Osmond's singing voice sounds more like him than his own. while in the Chinese version, his speaking and singing voice was (awesomely) Jackie Chan. Not even Grandmother Fa was safe from this. Her speaking voice was June Foray, and her singing voice (for her brief solo) was Marni Nixon (who was very famous for doing singing voices for Deborah Kerr, among others, in the 1950s).

Everybody in Aladdin had a different singing voice, save for Genie and Jafar (and in the sequels, Iago as well). Aladdin's speaking VA is Scott Weinger, singing provided by Brad Kane. Jasmine's speaking voice was done by Linda Larkin while her singing was also performed by Lea Salonga (Liz Calloway in the sequels). The Peddler sings with Bruce Adler's voice because Robin Williams couldn't hit the high notes in "Arabian Nights".

Pocahontas' VA was Irene Bedard, and her singing voice is that of Judy Kuhn. According to the former, they cast the singing voice first and brought her in later.

Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was spoken and sung by Demi Moore and Heidi Mollenhauer, respectively (Moore was going to do her own but said she wouldn't sound good enough). The rest of the cast did their own singing.

Linda Larkin (Jasmine in both Aladdin sequels, replacing Lea Salonga from the first movie—which is perfect, seeing as it's ridiculously easy for someone to mistake Liz for Lea and vice versa).

Hercules had no fewer than three voices - Tate Donovan as adult Herc, Josh Keaton when he's younger, and Roger Bart when he's younger and singing. This was originally to be averted in young Herc's case, as Keaton did originally record his own rendition of "Go the Distance" before it was later replaced with Bart's version.

Matthew Broderick can sing, but due to being more of a Lyric Baritone than a tenor, Joseph Williams replaces Simba for singing in The Lion King (and Cam Clarke afterwards). Young Simba is also replaced (Jason Weaver instead of Jonathan Taylor Thomas- and Evan Saucedo for the extra song in the 2003 DVD release), and Jeremy Irons sings some of Scar's lyrics, but partway through, the harsher lyrics were replaced by that of Jim Cummings, since Irons blew his voice out doing the "YOU WON'T GET A SNIFF WITHOUT ME!" line in "Be Prepared", resulting in Cummings subbing for him.

An early draft of The Jungle Book was originally going to have Thurl "Tony the Tiger" Ravenscroft as the singing voice of Shere Khan. In the movie as actually produced, George Sanders refused to do Shere Khan's only sung line in "That's What Friends Are For", despite displaying a final baritone singing voice elsewhere.

101 Dalmatians is possibly the earliest case; Roger's speaking voice is done by Ben Wright and his singing voice by Bill Lee (which would explain the inexplicable American accent he develops).

While Frozen averts this in the original English language release with the exception of 5-year-old Anna (where Livvy Stubenrauch was dubbed by Katie Lopez), most foreign dubs have to assign the main characters two voice artists: one for speaking parts, and one for singing parts. And ALL members of the main cast get at least one song to themselves.

The Dutch dub doesn't do this, but the German dub does - which is odd, given they both cast Willemijn Verkaik (original German and Dutch Elphaba) as Elsa, with her singing and speaking for the Dutch dub and only singing in the German dub.

An odd example for the French dubs: Anais Delva speaks and sings for Elsa in the European French dub. The Canadian French version dubs Elsa's speaking voice with a new actress, but keeps Delva's singing.

Averted for most of the cast of Moana - Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, and Jemaine Clement all provided their own singing voices - except for Moana's father, Chief Tui. His speaking voice is Temuera Morrison, while his singing voice is provided by Chris Jackson. The story goes that Lin-Manuel Miranda, while writing the songs for Moana, used the cast of Hamilton to record demos (as he was still involved with the show at that time), and used Jackson (who played Washington in the show) stand in for Morrison. They ended up liking his recording so much that they used it in the final movie. note Philipa Soo, who plays Alexander Hamilton's wife Eliza in the show, also has a small cameo in Moana for the same reason.

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Kathleen Turner provided the speaking voice of Jessica Rabbit, while Amy Irving supplied her singing voice. In a rare reversal to most of the examples on this page, it's Amy Irving that gets credit while Kathleen Turner is omitted (amusingly, her performance model is credited).

In The Prince of Egypt, Val Kilmer's singing voice as Moses was provided by Amick Byram, Danny Glover (Jethro) was replaced by Broadway veteran Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Sally Dworsky dubbed the singing role for Miriam (Sandra Bullock). And proving that being a Dame is no barrier to such things, Helen Mirren has Linda Dee Shayne step in as the Queen's singing voice.

In Cats Don't Dance, Sawyer's singing voice was provided by Natalie Cole, and the speaking voice was Jasmine Guy. Likewise, Darla Dimple's singing voice is by Lindsay Ridgeway, and her speaking voice by Ashley Peldon.

Though promotional material would have you believe that Lee Ann Womack played Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer (2000), that wasn't entirely true. Womack provided only the singing voice for the character, while voice actress Hynden Walch recorded her dialogue.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 features one song "For The Dancing and the Dreaming", sung by Stoik and Valka. Cate Blanchett is Valka's speaking voice, but Mary Jane Wells provides the singing. Gerard Butler however, still sings for Stoik.

The film adaptation of Coraline sees the Other Father (voiced by John Hodgman) sing a catchy little ditty about Coraline, in the voice of John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. This was a Shout-Out to the fact that, originally, the film was going to be a musical with songs written by They Might Be Giants. As awesome as that could have been, it apparently ruined the creepy tone of the movie, so the idea was scrapped. "The Other Father Song" is the only remnant of the musical idea.

Lady and the Tramp II Scamp's Adventure has three examples of this: Buster's speaking voice is Chazz Palminteri while his singing voice is Jess Harnell, Scamp's speaking voice is Scott Wolf and his singing voice is Roger Bart, and Angel's speaking voice is Alyssa Milano and her singing voice is Susan Egan. Funnily enough, Alyssa did have a brief stint as a pop star in Japan when she was a teenager.

In the animated The King and I, as like its live-action counterpart, Anna had a separate voice actor as her singing voice. Miranda Richardson spoke, Christiane Noll sang. The Prince also has Allen D. Hong as the speaking voice, and David Burnham as the singing. Tuptim was voiced by Armi Arabe, and sung by Tracy Venner.

In Toy Story 2, Jessie is voiced by Joan Cusack, but her yodeling was by Mary Kay Bergman. Wheezy (voiced by Pixar Regular Joe Ranft) sings a reprise of the original film's "You've Got a Friend in Me" at the end, sung by Robert Goulet. The series has many first-person songs such as "When She Loved Me", "You've Got a Friend in Me", "Strange Things" and "I Will Go Sailing No More", but it's more of "music to fit the situation" instead of "character singing." Jessie's voice acting arrangement is averted in Toy Story 3: Mary Kay Bergman tragically died in 1999, so Joan Cusack did her own yodeling for the third movie.

All over the place in Quest for Camelot; Kayley is voiced by Teri Schuester (speaking) and Andrea Corr (singing); Garrett is voiced by Cary Elwes (speaking) and Bryan White (singing); Kayley's mother is voiced by Jane Seymour (speaking) and Céline Dion (singing); King Arthur is voiced by James Bond (speaking) and Steve Perry (singing). Notably the film was not a musical when it was first produced, but became one later in development - hence the reason more singing actors weren't cast.

In the Looney Tunes movie Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, Daffy's singing voice is provided by Mel Torme. Lampshaded though, in that Daffy swallows a bottle of mouthwash designed to give him Mel Torme's voice.

This may have been the inspiration for the Duck Dodgers episode "Talent Show A-Go-Go", in which Dodgers uses some Applied Phlebotinum to swap voices with Tom Jones. In addition to Jones voicing Dodgers, we also get Joe Alaskey voicing Tom Jones trying to sing while "sounding like Daffy Duck".

Towards the end of Paul Winchell's tenure as the voice of Tigger (such as Pooh's Grand Adventure, A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving or Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You), Jim Cummings, Pooh's voice actor and Winchell's stand-in and eventual successor, had to provide Tigger's singing. Frankie J. Galasso does the singing did Christopher Robin rather than Brady Bluhm and Steve Schatzberg sings for Piglet rather than John Fiedler

The Jetsons movie "Rockin With Judy Jetson" had Judy's singing done by BJ Ward rather than Janet Waldo. Speaking of which, Jetsons: The Movie almost played it straight, but eventually averted it. Janet Waldo was meant to reprise the role of Judy, while pop singer Tiffany would do her singing, but executive meddling saw the latter voice the character in full.

"Tom And Jerry And The Wizard Of Oz" and its sequel, "Tom And Jerry: Back To Oz" , sees Dorothy voiced by Grey De Lisle, while Nikki Yanofsky and Amy Pemberton do the singing in the respective movies. This is unusual though since Grey is a talented singer, and has also sung for other people.

During the musical number "Somewhere Out There" in An American Tail, Phillip Glasser provided his own singing voice for Fievel, while Tanya was performed by Betsy Cathcart as opposed to her VA Amy Green. In the sequel An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Cathy "Blossom" Cavadini did the speaking and singing parts for Tanya.

Zac Efron's singing lines in High School Musical are all sung by Drew Seeley. This is because Troy was written to be a Tenor Boy, but Zac Efron's vocal range is a baritone. In the sequels this was adjusted and he did his own singing. In the first film his own voice can be heard at the start of "Breaking Free" and as he sings outside Gabriella's window.

Marni Nixon was the live-action queen of this for ages (often uncredited). From The Other Wiki: Nixon's dubbing career includes:

The singing voice for Deborah Kerr in two different movies - The King and I (1956), where her vocals were skilfully intertwined with Deborah's on some tracks; and An Affair to Remember a year later. This was the first time she was acknowledged as such, as Deborah went to the papers to give her the credit (though she only said she was supplied with a few top notes).

The singing voice for Natalie Wood as Maria in West Side Story (1961) and also sang some parts of the score of Anita played by Rita Moreno, sharing the load with co-dubber Betty Wand and Moreno herself. In parts of the quintet setting of the song "Tonight", Nixon sings both Maria's and Anita's lines. Interestingly, there is a clip of Natalie Wood singing (in an untrained voice) "Tonight" mash-up with Nixon's dub. Wood had been trying to do her own singing and reportedly felt betrayed when she found out she was being dubbed.

The singing voice for Audrey Hepburn as Eliza in My Fair Lady (1964), for which Nixon gained much notoriety, as news-eager journalists ripped apart the customary veil of secrecy. Industry buzz has said this to have been the cause of Hepburn's failing even to get nominated for an Academy Award for the demanding role. Interestingly, the DVD features the original footage of Hepburn singing, and while she's not as skilled as Nixon, she certainly doesn't embarrass herself. Most notably she refused to do another musical afterwards unless she was allowed to do her own singing.

Drew Barrymore was the only cast member who was dubbed in Everyone Says I Love You, simply because she claimed she can't sing (though her performance in Music and Lyrics seems to go against this. Then again, 50 First Dates does back her up...). Oddly enough, several of her castmates, such as Edward Norton, were instructed to sing less well because their voices were considered too good to fit in with Allen's vision of normal people breaking into spontaneous musical numbers.

All the singing voices in Carmen Jones were dubbed in, even though the cast featured trained singers such as Harry Belafonte and Diahann Carroll.

In Joyeux Noël, set during the Christmas truce of World War I, German soldier Nikolaus Sprink (Benno Fürmann) and his lover Anna Sørensen (Diane Kruger) are both opera singers, and during their performance scenes, the singing voices of Natalie Dessay and Rolando Villazón are dubbed in.

Of the four leads in the 1958 film version of South Pacific, only Mitzi Gaynor got to use her own singing voice. Giorgio Tozzi, the bass who sang for Rossano Brazzi, is a name well known to opera buffs. Muriel Smith, who dubbed Juanita Hall as Bloody Marynote Juanita Hall would get to do her own singing in Flower Drum Song., had played the part onstage in the London production. Stewpot's brief Basso Profundo solo in "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" was dubbed by Thurl Ravenscroft.

In White Christmas, Vera-Ellen's singing voice was provided by one Trudy Stevens. For the duet song "Sisters," Rosemary Clooney sang both parts (for herself and Vera).

Most other movie musicals featuring Vera-Ellen had someone else do her singing voice; On the Town assigned her a mostly non-singing part. It's pretty well known that while Vera-Ellen was an amazing dancer, singing was something she simply could not do. Ironically, her White Christmas costar, Rosemary Clooney, a great singer, admitted that her dancing wasn't exactly her specialty.

In Back to the Future, Mark Campbell was the one to sing "Johnny B. Goode" - in the place of Michael J. Fox. The song was credited as having been "performed by Marty McFly". (Fox does, however, do his own singing in Light Of Day).

Christopher Plummer recorded every vocal to every song in the movie. In post-production he reviewed his tapes, decided that there was no way in hell he was good enough to sing opposite Julie Andrews, and gave permission for Bill Lee to dub him.

Kurt's high note in "So Long, Farewell" is actually sung by Liesl's little sister, Darleen Carr. According to Charmian's memoir Forever Liesl, Darleen and a few other children were hired to provide additional voices on the group numbers. All seven actors do sing every number, though. The only time additional voices are not used is the listless rendition of My Favorite Things at the beginning of Act II, just before Maria's voice joins theirs.

Margery MacKay provided the singing voice of Peggy Wood, who wasn't up to "Climb Every Mountain." In fact, the reason the Reverend Mother is facing the window as the song begins was because Peggy Wood had trouble lip-syncing to the start of the song.

In The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Margaret Preece sung Carlotta's songs instead of Minnie Driver (who in fact did sing "Learn To Be Lonely" over the credits, but didn't have the operatic voice Carlotta needs). Preece also cameos as the female member of the trio in the "Il Muto" scene.

Rita Hayworth sang in many movies, but never in her own voice. To name only a few singers who dubbed for her:

Nan Wynn in You Were Never Lovelier. (Hayworth also conspicuously doesn't sing in the other movie musical pairing her with Fred Astaire, You'll Never Get Rich.)

Most every film role that Lucille Ball did before television. After becoming a TV star, she used her own not-quite-singing voice for Mame (and the unsuccessful Broadway musical Wildcat which she starred in and co-produced).

In Gigi, Leslie Caron's singing was all dubbed by Betty Wand except for the verse of "The Night They Invented Champagne."

In John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby, all of the characters' singing voices were done by professional singers, including Rachel Sweet, who did Allison's (played by Amy Locane) singing. Johnny Depp, who is a musician, did not sing in this film (James Intveld was Cry-Baby's singing voice).

In The Harvey Girls, Marion Doenges sang for Cyd Charisse and Virginia Rees sang for Angela Lansbury. That Lansbury didn't get to sing for herself is astounding in light of her later success in Broadway musicals in playing Mame and Mrs. Lovett. Apparently it's because her voice sounded "too good" for a lowlife saloon singer.

Cyd Charisse was usually dubbed in other MGM musicals if required to sing. She didn't sing in Singin' in the Rain, but India Adams sang for her in The Band Wagon and Carole Richards was her singing voice in Brigadoon and Silk Stockings. Eileen Wilson did Charisse's singing in Words and Music.

In Bugsy Malone, all the singing is done by adults with the kids lip-syncing. As a result it's glaringly obvious in places.

A weird case in Dark City. In the theatrical cut, nightclub singer Anna Murdoch is played by Jennifer Connelly, but her singing voice is provided by Anita Kelsey (who's also heard on the soundtrack album). In the director's cut, Jennifer Connelly does her own singing.

Singin' in the Rain: Debbie Reynolds had her singing voice dubbed over when her character, "Kathy," dubs "Lina" - Jean Hagen (Lina) for the speaking bits, and Betty Noyes for the songs "Would You" and "You Are My Lucky Star".

In The Mask, the song that Cameron Diaz's character sings is actually dubbed over by Susan Boyd. Diaz has never been noted for her wonderful singing voice, as My Best Friend's Wedding and the 2014 film version of Annie have demonstrated.

In Moulin Rouge!, Jim Broadbent's singing voice in the operatic numbers is dubbed in by Anthony Weigh; however, this trope is averted for the two leads, who both sang their own parts.

Duets: Director Bruce Paltrow chose the actors cast in the primary roles of this film for their surprisingly good singing - with the exception of Scott Speedman, who averts this trope by playing the only main character who never sings a note. (Gwyneth Paltrow had two hit singles in Australia and New Zealand with songs from the film.) However, in the case of Ricky Kane (played by Andre Braugher), the in-story angelic nature of the character's voice forced the director to dub in a professional singer for his karaoke scenes.

In Gypsy, Rosalind Russell's singing was dubbed over by Lisa Kirk. Natalie Wood, however, got to use her own singing voice this time.

Gold Diggers of 1933 had Joan Blondell's singing dubbed over by Marian Anderson in "Remember My Forgotten Man." Blondell used her own singing voice in Dames. It was not pretty.

The film version of Oliver! had the vocals of the title character (played by Mark Lester) sung by Kathe Green, who was the daughter of the musical director.

In The Great Race, Natalie Wood's singing was once again dubbed, this time by Jackie Ward, when she sings "The Sweetheart Tree". During an earlier scene, she sings "My Country Tis Of Thee" in her own voice, and it is noticeably off-key. Jackie Ward dubbed Natalie Woods singing again in Inside Daisy Clover, though you do get to hear a bit of Woods own singing voice on the intro to Youre Gonna Hear From Me.

Parodied in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, where the singing voices sound nothing like the speaking voices (notably Arthur Rubin dubbing Cary Elwes).

Ava Gardner's singing was dubbed by Eileen Wilson in The Hucksters (1947), One Touch of Venus (1948) and The Bribe (1949). She was determined to put her vocal training to the test as Julie in the 1951 remake of Show Boat; Annette Warren's singing voice was nevertheless dubbed over hers, but Gardner did her own singing on the soundtrack album and in other movies of the 1950s.

In Cannibal! The Musical, Trey Parker dubbed Robert Muratore's singing voice for "The Trapper Song": According to the commentary, they did try to have Muratore sing himself, but the results weren't very good. Meanwhile, Andrew Kemler and Edward Henwood's off-key backing vocals in the same number were left un-dubbed because Parker thought they were funny... It did also happen to add to a joke where the song gets interrupted as the characters argue about what key it's supposed to be in.

Natalya Varley in Leonid Gaidai's Kidnapping, Caucasian Style was not only dubbed for her singing voice by Aida Vedischeva, a famous pop singer of the time, but also her speaking parts were overdubbed by another actress, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, because Gaidai though that Varley's natural voice didn't fit the character.

In another seminal Soviet comedy, The Irony of Fate, the leading female role was played by a Polish actress Barbara Brylska, who also was overdubbed for both her speaking and singing voices due to her strong Polish accent. Her speaking parts were done by Valentina Talyzina (who also did a bit role of one of Nadya's friends), and her singing is by the Grand Dame of the Soviet and Russian pop music, Alla Pugacheva, in the mid-Seventies still a relative nobody.

In The Greatest Showman Rebecca Ferguson plays Jenny Lind - considered to have the best singing voice in the world. While she has admitted she can carry a tune, she agreed to be dubbed by Loren Allred. She did however sing the song live on set.

Susan Alexander in Citizen Kane is forced into starring as the lead in an opera and fails due to being out of her depth. Marion Davies plays Susan but the singing is done by Dorothy Comingore. To avert Hollywood Tone-Deaf, they wrote the number to be impossibly hard to sing but also in the soprano range - while Dorothy is an alto. As a result her voice sounds realistically strained.

In Whale Music, the lead character Desmond Howl is played by Maury Chaykin, who softly sings the song "Claire" to himself while writing it. But when he records the vocals for the final version of the song, the voice coming out of him is that of Tim Vesley of Music/Rheostatics, the band commissioned to write the songs for the film.

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In The Partridge Family, only David Cassidy and Shirley Jones actually sang. The others all lip synched to session singers.

One Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch features John Cleese as an archaeologist who randomly bursts into song. Cleese by his own admission is a terrible singer (he did sing "Eric the Half a Bee," but very little else), so his singing parts in the sketch were dubbed in by Terry Jones. In his pre-Python TV and radio shows Cleese sang "Rhubarb Tart" and "The Ferret Song", which must be heard to be believed. Oddly his version of "My Way" in Georgeofthe Jungle is actually quite good.

Similarly in the Musical Episode of Scrubs, Elliot only has only a few sung lines throughout the episode, even during her and JD's friendship song, due to Sarah Chalke's apparent inability to sing. This inability to sing is later worked into Elliot's character as a running gag in Season 8.

Done in-universe on Friends when Pheobe is dubbed for the "Smelly Cat" music video. It's obvious to everyone but her.

Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann in Gilligan's Island, couldn't even sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" along with the rest of the cast without ruining it, and couldn't sing a single note without being dubbed over. Her natural singing voice is used in one episode however, when Mary Ann believes that she's Ginger. IIRC it's what causes her to remember who she actually is, because the actual Ginger sings much better.

In "The Bitter Suite," the first Musical Episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, Renee O'Connor and Hudson Leick (Gabrielle and Callisto) sang with the respective voices of Susan Wood and Michelle Nicastro; Miss O'Connor subverted this in the second one ("Lyre Lyre, Hearts On Fire"), as she did sing here - along with Miss Wood and Susan Calloway!

The early nineties TV movie Freeze Frame dubbed its male lead (Kids Incorporated alum Ryan Lambert) in order to save money.

When the Anything People are introduced in the first episode of Sesame Street, they are all voiced by their performers, but when they start singing "Consider Yourself", some of their voices are sung by members of the human cast. Also happens in the rare performance of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The lead-singing girl is voiced by Loretta Long (Susan), but after the song ends, her voice is done by Frank Oz. Almost an opposite of the trope, as her singing is a lot more prominent.

Halle Berry won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, but Dorothy's singing was done by Wendi Williams.

In-universe in That's So Raven. An episode where Cory's band decides to get a new singer has Cory being so enchanted by the beauty of one girl that he picks her, despite the fact that she's Hollywood Tone-Deaf. Faced with the possibility of either telling her the truth and offending her, or letting her sing live and ruin the performance...the girl ends up getting cold feet on the day. So she just lipsynchs on stage while Cory's mother (who has a much better voice) sings behind the curtain.

Also applies visually in the stage version, where they are portrayed as a floating head on screen and a live actor on stage, respectively.

Inverted by the Gorillaz: 2D was originally played by real-life singer Damon Albarn, but had a second voice actor, (Nelson de Freitas,) hired to record his speaking voice.

Milli Vanilli was an extremely popular, award-winning rap/pop group in the late 80s and early 90s that returned a Grammy after it was revealed that the people getting all the credit for the music were just models dancing and lipsynching to uncredited vocalists. They were the original Trope Namer for the acting version.

They're just the most (in)famous example; several dance-oriented pop groups rely on attractive stand-ins lipsynching to others' voices.

Probably the second most famous case after Milli Vanilli was the story of Martha Wash. A very talented but rather large woman, she recorded vocals for several famous songs in the early Nineties, mostly for dance groups such as Black Box and C+C Music Factory (That famous "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!" at the beginning of "Gonna Make You Sweat?" That was her). Unfortunately, someone decided that because of her size, she was unmarketable, and was replaced by a model lip-synching the song in the video, without her knowledge or her permission. She took the record label to court, demanding proper credit and royalties, and there is now a mandate that all performers are given proper credit on recordings.

That model, Zelma Davis, was actually a vocalist herself, and sang on many of the tracks off C+C's album, Gonna Make You Sweat.

Martha Wash did get some modicum of fame in her own right in the mid-80s as one half of The Weather Girls, best known for their iconic One-Hit Wonder "It's Raining Men".

Belgian house band One-Man Band Technotronic recorded their hit debut album Pump Up The Jam: The Album with rappers Ya Kid K and MC Eric providing vocals in the studio, but used Congolese supermodel Felly to lip-sync Ya Kid K's rapping in the music video to the hit title track. A small controversy ensued, and Ya Kid K was featured in the band's followup videos.

Professional Wrestling

Wrestlicious had a character of an Idol Singer 'Kandi Kisses', played by Lizzy Valentine. At one point in the first episode, she has a skit where she performs a song "Powerbomb" in the ring (and is revealed to be lipsynching). Lizzy confimed that the girl singing is not her.

Radio

The Hamish and Dougal episode "Fame Idol", which hinges on Mrs Naughtie (played by Alison Steadman) having a beautiful singing voice (played by Jane Gilchrist). The series running on Rule of Funny, there was inevitably one scene where Mrs Naughtie sang in her own voice, for no reason whatsoever.

Theater

Naturally, being a live medium and all, this doesn't happen in theater very often, even with actors and actresses whose singing voices have usually been dubbed by others in movies; any songs they really can't sing are usually simply cut or reassigned to other characters. Occasionally, however, it can be used as a gag. For instance, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder has the song "Lady Hyacinth Abroad," which ends with Lady Hyacinth (originated on Broadway by Jefferson Mays, who also played the other D'Ysquiths, male and female) hitting a crazy high note, usually provided by a female singer (possibly trained soprano Lauren Worsham on Broadway?) backstage.

The revival of Spring Awakening, because of its casting Deaf and hard-of-hearing actors in some roles, has two actors playing said roles, one signing in American Sign Language and one speaking/singing (cast list for the Broadway iteration):

Sandra Mae Frank (sign) and Katie Boeck (voice) - Wendla

Daniel Durant (sign) and Alex Boniello (voice) - Moritz

Miles Barbee (sign) and Sean Grandillo (voice) - Otto

Joshua Castille (sign) and Daniel David Stewart (voice) - Ernst

Treshelle Edmond (sign) and Kathryn Gallagher (voice) - Martha

Amelia Hensley (sign) and Lauren Luiz (voice) - Thea

The roles of the Adult Women and Adult Men are unique: Camryn Manheim and Patrick Page speak and sign their lines, but also dub for Marlee Matlin and Russell Harvard whenever the latter two are onstage.

Yuna's speaking voice is Hedy Burress but when she uses the Songstress dressphere to sing the songs "Real Emotion" and "1000 Words", the singing is done by Jade Villalon. But when Yuna sings in battle, it's Hedy's own singing. Likewise with Tara Strong and Gwendoline Yeo when Rikku and Paine use songstress commands in battle.

Lenne, whose imprints are in the Songstress dressphere, also has her singing done by Jade Villalon - while Cree Summer is her speaking voice. This appears to imply that Yuna sings with Lenne's voice while using the dressphere - which is the case in the original Japanese, where Koda Kumi sang for both Yuna and Lenne.

In LocoRoco, yellow and green one both have different voice actors - one for singing, other for talking.

The songstress Azura is voiced by seiyuu Lynn for her speaking lines and up-and-coming singer Renka for her songs, with the latter providing the vocals to the game's vocal theme, if ~ hitori omou ("If ~ One's Thoughts"). The English dub, however, has Broadway actress Rena Strober do both her speaking and singing lines, with her version of the main theme (renamed "Lost in Thoughts, All Alone") being very well-received.

Possibly justified in-universe: Inon Zur's orchestra starts playing to accompany her, and based on her remarks afterwards, that's not what she actually sounded like, but the way she remembered "In Uthenera" being performed.

A constant of the Ar tonelico series. Every singer in the series will have both a voice actress and a singing voice, with Akiko Shikata and Haruka Shimotsuki usually providing for the main heroines even though all of them have different voice actors. It gets even more obvious in the English dubs, that just use the Japanese songs with no change.

Similar to the above example, in Tales of the Abyss Tear's (Nicole Karrer) fonic hymns are treated as sound effects, and use the original audio (Yukana).

In Lunar: The Silver Star, Luna's English voice actress was Rhonda Gibson in the Working Designs era and Kathryn Kirk more recently, but Jenny Stigile provides Luna's singing voice in all the remakes.

Bruce Isaac's singing voice in Fallout: New Vegas is done by the project director and lead designer, Joshua Sawyer.

Web Original

The "Powered by the Cheat" versions of the Homestar Runner characters. Their speaking voices are provided by Mike Chapman, but their singing voices are provided by Matt Chapman (or Missy Palmer in the case of Marzipan); in other words, the same as their normal versions. In this case, this seems to be due to the "actual" characters recording their own vocals while The Cheat only provides the animation.

In the Two More Eggs music video "Why Did You Take My Paste", the gopher, whose speaking voice was and still is Mike Chapman, is clearly played by Matt when he's singing.

In RWBY, Weiss Schnee is voiced by Kara Eberle, but her singing is done by Casey Lee Williams, who provides most of the show's soundtrack.

Western Animation

Kim Possible: The Oh Boyz singing voices are not the same as their acting voices.

Liz Callaway is easily the queen of singing animated princesses. In addition to her Disney credits listed above, she provided the singing voice for the title character of Anastasia (voiced by Meg Ryan) and Odette in The Swan Princess (voiced by Michelle Nicastro).

Not only was the adult version of Anastasia given two voices, but so was the child version - for this one Lacey Chabert took over for Kirsten Dunst when it was time for the girl to sing.

Ellen Bernfeld also did backing vocals for The Holograms and The Misfits, and was the singing voice of Roxy in her only solo song. Roxy's speaking voice actress was Bobbie Block.

Riot of The Stingers spoke with the voice of Townsend Coleman and sang with the voice of Gordon Grody (who went on to become Lady Gaga's voice coach).

The other two Stingers were also dubbed for singing. When speaking, Minx was Kath Soucie and Rapture was Ellen Gerstell. For singing, both of them were usually dubbed by Diva Grey, but for Rapture's two solo lines in the song "Destiny", she was dubbed by Vicki Sue Robinson, the disco singer of "Turn the Beat Around" fame!

When Kimber and Stormer sang a duet, they were dubbed over by Florence Warner and Lani Grover respectively, though Cathianne Blore and Susan Blu perform their speaking lines. Interestingly enough, their singing voices don't match their speaking voices at all.

All of this despite the fact that many of the speaking voice actors have done some singing, including JEM's speaking voice actress, Samantha Newmark, who is a professional singer.

The Family Guy episode "Don't Make Me Over" saw the Griffins forming a family band fronted by Meg. Trouble is, Meg's voice actress, Mila Kunis, can't sing (unlike Lacey Chabert, who originally voiced Meg - see Anastasia above), so they called in Tara Strong to perform Meg's song. In Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, Ali Hills does Meg's singing voice. Mila Kunis actually sang a line in a Sound of Music parody in the episode "Mr. Saturday Knight". On the DVD commentary, she claims she sounds "like shit".

Mikey's speaking voice is Jason Davis, but his singing voice is performed by Robert Goulet. A whole episode was dedicated to his newly discovered singing talent, and it's later revealed he can also speak in this voice when he uses it to spread a rumor. In this case, it's Played for Laughs, as his singing voice sounds absolutely nothing like his normal voice, being a ridiculously low, adult baritone. To quote a kindergartner in Recess: School's Out, after he sings his farewell to TJ, "Big kid sing good."

When the main six perform "Green Tambourine" for the ending credits of the movie, the rest of the main six have different singing voices, with the sole exceptions of Vince (Ricky D`Shon Colins) and Spinelli (Pamela Segal). Interestingly enough, Gus (Courtland Mead) had his singing voice performed by Blake Ewing, the voice of Menlo, and Gretchen (Ashley Johnson) had hers by Anndi McAffee, the voice of Ashley A.

Sonic Underground had the three hedgehog protagonists (yes, even the girl) voiced by the same voice actor, Jaleel White. However, when it came to the Once an Episode singing segment, they were voiced by three separate Voice Actors: Samuel Vincent for Sonic, Tyley Ross for Manic and Louise Vallance for Sonia. Sonic's and Sonia's were close enough matches, but Manic's singing voice sounded absolutely nothing like his normal one.

In the Danny Phantom episode "Fanning the Flames", the song sung by Ember was by a woman named Robbyn Kirmsse while her main actress is Tara Strong. Strangely, this is the only incident of that happening. Ember sings another song in another episode which as far as anyone knows, Tara Strong does. Robbyn Kirmsse only does one episode and is never heard from again.

In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life Filburt discovers he has a talent for lounge singing. His regular speaking voice was done by Doug Lawrence and his singing voice by Tom Kenny (Heffer), who in addition to voice acting is also a professional singer.

There are a couple of examples of this in Rock & Rule. Depending on which version you watch, Omar's speaking voice is either done by Paul Le Mat in the film, or Gregory Salata in the TV version; in both versions, his singing voice is done by Robin Zander. Angel's speaking voice is Susan Roman while her singing voice is Deborah Harry, and Mok's speaking voice is Don Francks while his singing voice is Lou Reed.

When Janet Waldo voiced Alice in Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, Doris Drew provided the singing voice. Waldo and Drew sound nothing alike. Waldo herself is actually a very good singer as evidenced in some early radio performances, so why they felt the need to replace her at all remains a mystery.

Taken to the point of parody on Phineas and Ferb, where (British) Ferb will sing with completely different accents for reggae or rap songs. Most of the other characters sing with the voice actors' voices, however.

And an in-universe example from the same, during the "Summer Belongs to You" special, Phineas hires Clay Aiken for his voice for one musical number, and Ferb gets Chaka Khan. It is obviously lampshaded.

Also lampshaded with Linda, who admits that her "Lindana" career was done by lip-syncing. In real life Linda is voiced by Caroline Rhea while "Lindana" is performed by Olivia Olson, who also voices (and sings for) Vanessa.

Stacy's voice is usually that of Kelly Hu, but her singing voice is that of Laura Dickinson.

While SpongeBob SquarePants often sings in his normal voice, on special occasions he shows off a fantastic singing voice that sounds nothing like him, with him being voiced by a different guest singer every time.

In The Flintstones, Wilma and Betty both had several different singing voices. None of them sounded anything like their speaking voices.

In The Man Called Flintstone Fred's singing voice for the song "Teammates" is provided by future regular Fred Flintstone voice actor Henry Corden. Corden does such a good job here mimicking Alan Reed's performance that it can be hard to tell the difference.

In "Esther: The Girl Who Became Queen", Queen Esther is voiced by Jessica Kaplan, with her singing voice by Pamela Thomas.

In "Princess and the Pop Star", Vanna Banana's speaking voice is provided by Rebecca Walker while her singing was provided by Moriah Peters.

In the compilation release "God Loves You Very Much", Annie is voiced by Maggie Roberts (who began voicing her in "The Little Drummer Boy"), while her singing was provided by Ally Nawrocki (who'd previously voiced the character starting with "Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush" through "Sweetpea Beauty"). By the time "Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas" came out about two years later, Maggie was capable of providing her own singing.

While Pinkie Pie's singing voice is normally provided by Shannon Chan-Kent, her speaking voice Andrea Libman still does her own singing as Fluttershy, and even Pinkie on occasion. According to Libman, this is because Pinkie's speaking voice can be very straining for her; one can only imagine doing the singing voice would be even harder on her vocal chords. Pinkie Pie's Smile Song notably has Andrea Libman providing backing vocals, making it a rare case where both singing and voice actors for Pinkie Pie are heard together. Andrea Libman also provided Pinkie Pie's rap in "Testing Testing 1,2,3".

In another odd case, Twilight Sparkle's speaking voice actress Tara Strong is more than capable of singing herself (she's even been the singing double to other actresses before), but her voice is recorded separately from other actors in the show; she's the only Hollywood-based actor while all the others record in Canada, and Strong is usually unavailable to travel.

While afflicted with a deep male voice in "Filli Vanilli", Fluttershy has two different male actors for her speaking and singing parts.

In the Italian dub, almost everyone has a different voice actor for singing.

Rainbow Dash, normally voiced by Federica Valenti, when singing is voiced by Renata Bertolas in the first three seasons (except for "Suited By Success" and "May the Best Pet Win!", where Marisa Della Pasqua takes the role) and Rossella Contu from Season 4 onwards.

Applejack's regular voice is Benedetta Ponticelli, replaced by Renata Bertolas in the first season (except for her very first line in "Winter Wrap Up", where Marisa Della Pasqua does the voice with Renata taking the role for her verse later in the song) and Maria Silvia Roli starting from Season 3.

Pinkie Pie, whose regular voice actress is Donatella Fanfani, has her singing done by Vera Calacoci in the first three seasons and Silvia Pinto starting from Equestria Girls.

Fluttershy, usually Benedetta Ponticelli, has Marisa Della Pasqua as her singing vocal chords (except in "May the Best Pet Win!" where Vera Calacoci takes her place)

Rarity, normally voiced by Camilla Gallo, gets replaced by Greta Bortolotti when singing, and is actually the only one of the Mane 6 with a fixed singing voice.

Twilight Sparkle's voice actress, Emanuela Pacotto, usually does her own singing, except for the ending credits song of Friendship Games and "The Cutie Remark", where Laura Panzeri takes her place.

Marisa Della Pasqua, Greta Bortolotti and Laura Panzeri take the singing roles for most of the other characters (including Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Starlight Glimmer, Countess Coloratura and Apple Bloom).

Sweetie Belle is usually voiced by Sabrina Bonfitto, but when singing she is replaced by Vera Calacoci in the first seasons (albeit Jasmine Laurenti took the role in "The Show Stoppers") and Marisa Della Pasqua from Season 4 onwards.

Scootaloo, normally voiced by Martina Felli, is replaced by Renata Bertolas up to Season 3 and Maria Silvia Roli from Season 4 onwards.

Big McIntosh is voiced by Mario Scarabelli in the first four seasons and Lorenzo Scattorin in season 5 onwards and the Equestria Girls movies, but Luca Sandri does his humming in "Filli Vanilli".

As we are writing, the only characters whose voice actors always did their singing are Spike (Tania De Domenico), Princess Cadance and Trixie (both Marisa Della Pasqua), and Cheese Sandwich (Paolo De Santis).

In Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire when the gang is singing at the beginning, that is obviously not Frank Welker doing Fred's singing voice, as the singer (Jim Wise) is much younger and sounds nothing like him. Also Bets Malone fills in for Mindy Cohn as Velma's singing voice.

In the TV special Easter Fever the villain Madame Egg was voiced by Jeri Craden, however her singing voice was provided by a man singing in falsetto.

Zig-zagged all over the place in the Garfieldspecials. Lorenzo Music primarily voiced Garfield, and occasionally provided his singing voice as well (as he also was for Garfield and Friends). More often than not though, Lou Rawls, who also sang the opening numbers for each special, provided his singing voice instead. Sometimes both of them provided his singing voice for the same specials. For example, in "Garfield's Halloween Adventure, Music sings as Garfield for "What Should I Be," as well as a brief pirate song while later on Rawls sings as him for "I'm No Scaredy-Cat."

Parodied in South Park in "A Very Crappy Christmas" with the song "The Circle of Poo" (a parody of The Lion King), with Mr. Hankey's son Cornwallis talking in a young child's voice (Trey Parker) but singing with a deep man's voice (former Temptations member Louis Price).

Played straight in "Elementary School Musical" for some of the other students. A few of the girls, particularly Bebe, were voiced by Molly Pasuttinote a local LA singer and the wife of the show's composer Jamie Dunlap. She's also known for dubbing the opening theme of the anime "Moldiverfor their singing parts. Pasutti's two children, Alexis and Dylan Dunlap, filled in for providing the vocals for the other boys and girls.

An interesting variation occurs in the episode "Wing." Token sings "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" by Lou Rawls, but since the actor couldn't sing they sped up the Lou Rawls song instead. The sped up version sounds just like Token so it's pretty subtle.

Big Gay Al, while usually voiced by Matt Stone, has his singing voice provided by Trey Parker in the movie.

The Norwegian dub of Tiny Toon Adventures avoided this for the most part as almost all the characters has the same speaking/singing voices... except for Buster, whose voice actor apparently couldn't sing. As such, his singing voice was provided by the actor who voiced Gogo, Dizzy and Daffy, and sounded absolutely nothing like his speaking one.

On Littlest Pet Shop (2012), Penny Ling is voiced by Jocelyn Loewen, but her singing voice is Laura Hastings. Also, Zoe Trent is voiced by Nicole Oliver, with Kylee Epp as her singing voice. Oddly, the singing doubles have no other TV credits whatsoever.

In Rock & Rule, none of the characters who sing in the movie are done by their voice actors. Mok though, is a unique case because he has two, and they are done by none other than Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.

In the House of Mouse episode "The Three Caballeros," Panchito is voiced by Carlos Alazraqui; his singing voice was done by Rob Paulsen.

In the feature film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, Yogi's singing voice during the gondola scene is that of James Darren, which Boo-Boo lampshades during the song. His singing voice for all other songs in the film is by Bill Lee. Boo-Boo and Cindy also have different singing voices than their regular actors in the movie.

In Histeria! often times during the songs the kids singing voices were dubbed by adults like Loud Kiddington who's regular speaking voice was Cody Ruegger his singing voice was often done by Rob Paulsen when he wasn't singing in character, Charity Baazar who's regular speaking voice was Lorraine Newman (who was already an adult) her singing voice was provided by song writer Julie Bernstein.

Usually averted on Sofia the First, but when Jasmine and Mulan visit our heroine Linda Larkin and Ming-Na Wen are again subbed by Lea Salonga for the singing.

Also a plot point in the episode "The Silent Knight" where a heroic knight called Sir Bartleby never talks because of his horribly squeaky voice, which he sees as a barrier to telling Sofia's Great Aunt Tillie how he feels about her; so a plan is hatched for him to lipsync while another knight with a great singing voice sings for him. It doesn't work. But ultimately Tillie likes Sir Bartleby anyway, voice and all.

Clio and Hildegard are voiced by Harley Graham and Coco Grayson, while Jenna Lea Rosen does both of their singing.

Averted with Cinderella. Jennifer Hale reprises the role, though she does the singing rather than Tammi Tampin.

Late Holly Hobbie and Friends specials from Fabulous Fashion Show onwards has this due to a Nicole Bouma taking over from Alyson Stoner (THATAlysonStoner). However, while Alyson Stoner does her own singing, Nicole Bouma was paired with Mariella Piluso (apparently related to the producer of the show- hence the rampant accusations of nepotism), and it wouldn't be a problem if the two hadn't sound so different that their voices hardly matched up. This, along with many other changes, was widely thought to be the point where the franchise Jumped the Shark.

In the Woody Woodpecker cartoons "The Barber of Seville" and "Ski For Two" Woody's singing voice was provided by Lee Sweetland a popular singer of the time, whereas his speaking voice was done by Ben Hardaway, you can hardly tell the difference as the voice is sped up to sound like Woody's.

Well, sorta. One second, Woody's line sound very stiff (it sounds like Hardaway has to sound out every word), then BOOM! Operatic tenor!

The Italian dub of Muppet Babies originally averted this, with every cast member doing his singing parts (even the theme song). But after a while most of them began to have issues with keeping the character voices while singing according to Word of God, so Pietro Ubaldi (Gonzo's voice actor) replaced THE ENTIRE CAST when singing.

In Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, While Fat Albert is voiced by Bill Cosby, his singing voice is provided by Michael Gray. Neither voice sounds anything alike.

Cheryl in Archer is normally voiced by Judy Greer, but when she became a country singer in the Vice arc, her singing voice was provided by the country singer Jessy Lynn Martens.

A particularly weird example in the English version of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, where in DK has two completely different voices for speaking and singing* Richard Yearwood and Sterling Jarvis, respectively. Averted otherwise with the rest of the cast, who retain the same voices between dialogue and song numbers, to wildly varying degrees of success. Most foreign versions on the other hand, most notably the original French version and the Japanese dub, avert this.

During the Unlimited seasons of Justice League, it was both averted (yes, in "This Little Piggy" and "Fearful Symmetry", that is respectively Kevin Conroy and Jeffrey Combs singing) and played straight (Bruce Timm wasn't happy with Kin Shriner's attempt at humming Green Arrow's theme in "To Another Shore", so he took a crack at it and it was animated to his voice, but Timm was still unhappy and during ADR, he had Lex Lang do it).

The music video segments on ChalkZone initially had Robbyn Kirmsse' do Penny Sanchez's singing voice instead of Hynden Walch, but Walch eventually did Penny's singing as well.

In the Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "The Feelers", every single member of the titular rock band of anthropomorphic insects has separate voice actors for speaking and singing.

Mitzi Moth is voiced by Rosslyn Taylor, with her singing voice done by Robbyn Kirmsse'.

Max is voiced by Joe Lala when speaking and by Bill Burnett when singing.

Mo Skito's spoken dialogue is done by Quinton Flynn, while his singing voice is provided by Joe Pizzulo.

Stinger's speaking voice is provided by Greg Eagles, with his singing voice done by Alvin Chea.

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